Just a lil hope for you newcoming twin mommies

brknwings0313@yahoo.com

Hello, I gave birth to my identical twin boys at 30 weeks via emergency Cesarian on March 18th! Baby A is Dominik he weighed 3lbs 15oz and baby b is Blake at 2lbs 13oz. Our journey started with ten long weeks in the nicu! Dominik Came home 5 weeks before Blake. Dom came home April 20th and Blake came home May 25th! It was extremely exhausting having one baby at home and one at the NICU, and believe me the nurses seen some of my out burst and were amazing and were able to calm me down!! But this is more about the journey of having both babies home their first week together!!

So Blake came home to join his brother Dominik on May 25th, a day after their due date! They both had gotten their two month shots on the 24th so they were kind of fussy but very bearable! My husband pulled an all nighter on the evening of the 24th to make sure blake would take all his bottles, as it took him nearly a month to want to take the bottle and be able to get the "suck, swallow, breathe" mechanism down! Well he passed and came home! The first few days were pretty routine, feed babies, change diapers, bathe, wrap babies, let them sleep!

It wasnt until day 3 that blake was more content and more awake that things got a lil hectic! I have been able to manange it somehow, Our babies are eating every 2 1/2-3 hours feeding schedule, so i invested in two boppys!! heres the routine that works well for us: babies wake up, make bottles, warm them up, change their diapers(breathe and relax), place them in the boppys on the floor, grab the bottles sit on the floor and feed each baby at the same time, come burp time, stop feeding both babies lay both babies across my lap and tap or rub their backs until theyve burped, and repeat until their bottle is gone!

I have found swaddling the boys works wonders when getting them to sleep and not fussing in between bottle feedings!And binkies help alot too! but they will disappear about the same time bottles do at 1 years old!

I do tummy time twice a day, i put them on the floor on a blanket for about 15 mins per time, before a feeding! Sometimes they go for it sometimes they dont! The times they dont i lay them on their back and do some therapy with them and flex their hips and leg muscles in and out, and rotate their arms aswell!

And i am fortunate enough to have an amazing husband who splits the night shift so we are both able to sleep! I do the 1030pm feed, he does the 130 feed, I do the 430 feed, he does the 730 feeds! then he goes to work and i have them thru the day! so we atleast get 3-4 hours of sleep most nights! this doesnt always happen, but for the most part so far it does! 

 I hope these things that work for us help you figure out how to manage two or more babies!  Granted not every baby is the same, so not all things will work!, but its always worth a try. Good luck to you all and your families

 

  

 

 

 

kiwi443

Congrats on your boys! I'm glad things are going so well and both are home with you .

AmyJoy728

Glad they are both home. Hopefully they will go more than 3 hrs overnight for you soon!

Kristi1971

Congratulations on your boys!  It's wonderful that they are now both home and doing so well.